To Tell You the Truth

“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched- this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.  The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.”  I John 1:1-2

 

Jesus.  He has always been.  When the very foundations of the earth were laid, Jesus was there.  He existed before time as we know it existed.  Prior to coming to dwell on earth, he lived in the resplendence of heaven with the Heavenly Father and with the Holy Spirit.  Jesus did not just come to be when Mary gave birth to him in a stable.

For those of you who have been in church all your life, this may be a “no duh” moment.  These are things you hold to be true.  But for an ever increasing number of Americans, even some who call themselves Christians, these truths are subject to being discounted.  As Christians we can easily fail to see the danger in all of this and not sweat the small stuff.  But the small stuff unravels bigger stuff.  An entire blanket can be unmade by pulling on one piece of thread at a time. 

Jesus was there in the beginning.  He appeared to hundreds of people on this earth with convincing proof that he is Messiah.  The disciples continued to proclaim the truth of all of this even after Jesus had died, been entombed, rose again, dwelled among them and ascended up into heaven.  These truths prove his deity and cannot be dismissed.  In the truth of Jesus lies eternal life.

A day is coming when the church will have to give up on being politically correct and choose to be Biblically correct.  We are tolerating and loving people right into hell.  Yes, we hate sin and love the sinner.  Yes, we respect other people’s right to have a different opinion.  But the church has to decompress the mute button and once again be a proclaimer of the truth about the Bible and Jesus.  He is eternal life.  If people do not know that, they cannot have eternal life.  Join with me in praying that the purity of the gospel would return to the church and to America.  Other countries appear to receive the truth more readily than we do here.  As Christians we must pray and proclaim!

Dear Lord, help me as a Christian to get back to the basics of the gospel.  Help me to get back to my “first love” and the passion that I felt when I first came to know you.  In Jesus’ Name.  Amen.

Sherri